Malik Khan

Malik Khan was a Pakistani immigrant to the United Kingdom who worked at the Vauxhall Motors plant in Luton, England from the 1960s to the 1980s. He was the father of British writer Javed Khan.

Biography
Malik Khan was born in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, and he later started a family with his wife Noor before leaving Pakistan for England in 1963 to find work. He settled in Luton and worked at the Vauxhall Motors plant, and, in 1974, his wife and their three children joined him in Britain. He worked at the auto plant while his wife worked as a dry cleaner, providing for a working-class family living at the Luton Park Estate. In 1987, Khan lost his job when General Motors closed the Vauxhall Motors plant, forcing him to collect unemployment benefits. He often clashed with his son Javed Khan about Javed's love for Western culture and his dream of being a writer rather than a doctor; however, after Javed won an essay contest in 1987, he reconciled with his father, as he publicly expressed his gratitude at his father's hard work.